How does habitat diversity influence biodiversity and food webs? This is what a recent study published in Nature hopes to address as an international team of researchers investigated how the number of ...

Just under 3% of the world's land remains ecologically intact, with undisturbed habitat and minimal loss of its original animal species, a new study suggests. The research, published Thursday in the ...

Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem trends — which include another high mortality year — are not a cause for concern, federal and ...

Beavers, earthworms, prairie dogs, elephants, and more don't just live in ecosystems, they reshape them to the benefit of ...

image: Schematic figure illustrating the experimental design. The habitats 'Sandy beach,' 'Silty mud,' 'Cyanobacterial mats' and 'Ruppia meadows' were collected from shallow-water sediment ecosystems ...

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Too often, one ecosystem is overlooked in value and complexity in the workings of our planet. The images of a leveled forest or polluted waterway resonate much more strongly than the increasing ...

A new Oxford-led study reveals Africa’s animal energy flow has fallen to two-thirds of historic levels, with big consequences ...

UC Santa Cruz researchers show how vessel-tracking data mirrored tuna roaming beyond their typical territory due to unusually ...